i know, and i'm using one of these two. but still, i don't want to have to launch a new application when i want to see what time it is somewhere else. it should just be available in the built-in clock.
[user@RM696 user]$ date Mon Dec 5 15:45:08 CET 2011 [user@RM696 user]$ date -u Mon Dec 5 14:45:16 UTC 2011 [user@RM696 user]$ export TZ=EST [user@RM696 user]$ date Mon Dec 5 09:45:41 EST 2011 [user@RM696 user]$ unset TZ